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- 0:17Speaker 2: of the Dallas Cowboys. Here's Nick Eatman.
- 0:24Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go Cowboys storyline. What's up? When's the
- 0:27Speaker 1: October fifteenth? I just cut off, Chris, Sorry about that.
- 0:31Speaker 1: It's ready. Let's do this, presented by Gillette. We've got
- 0:35Speaker 1: a lot of good reads. We're gonna talk about Gellette today.
- 0:37Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about Cowboys Commanders. Maybe we'll talk about
- 0:41Speaker 1: the Panthers. I think we're done with that, right. We
- 0:44Speaker 1: know what happened when ma Rico, Walter Payton, Dabvill just
- 0:47Speaker 1: you know, went crazy on the Cowboys and they couldn't blitz.
- 0:51Speaker 1: They didn't blitz. They tried not to let Bryce Young
- 0:54Speaker 1: look like a Heisman Trophy winner that he was, but
- 0:58Speaker 1: it looked like he was back to Alabama again. So
- 1:00Speaker 1: we know that the Cowboys lost that game in Carolina.
- 1:03Speaker 1: Let's see what happens as they move forward against the
- 1:06Speaker 1: Washington Commanders. It's that time of the week Wednesday where
- 1:09Speaker 1: you're right there in the middle hump hump day. Let's
- 1:12Speaker 1: go forward. Let's see, let's see we get some some
- 1:14Speaker 1: new callers in here. I think we think we might
- 1:16Speaker 1: have one right off the start. So all right, eight
- 1:19Speaker 1: a A eight, five five two two ninety seven is
- 1:21Speaker 1: the number to call. Let's get right to it. Nate
- 1:23Speaker 1: the Great, He calls himself from Albuquerque. Nate, what's up?
- 1:30Speaker 1: Not so great? Is he not there? All right, let's
- 1:34Speaker 1: keep moving, Irene No, go to night straight again. Let's
- 1:41Speaker 1: go Nate.
- 1:43Speaker 4: Hey, Hey, Nick, good, talk to you.
- 1:45Speaker 1: What's up?
- 1:46Speaker 5: Hey?
- 1:47Speaker 6: So?
- 1:47Speaker 4: Yeah, So, I think it's kind of funny how the
- 1:49Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboy fans woul kind of like to overreact when
- 1:52Speaker 4: we lose. It's like the draft show and win. You know,
- 1:54Speaker 4: it's a super Bowl. But I'm with you. I think
- 1:57Speaker 4: this offense is on fire. Dad's playing like at MVP.
- 2:01Speaker 4: When we get CD back, He's in his prime. We
- 2:03Speaker 4: got Pickens, we got the running game that's better than
- 2:06Speaker 4: we thought it would be. I think now's the time
- 2:09Speaker 4: to strike when iron the top. I think Garry Jones
- 2:12Speaker 4: needs to make a trade, and I hope he does
- 2:14Speaker 4: because it would be a shame for this window to close.
- 2:17Speaker 4: These people that say no, we should save these draft picks.
- 2:20Speaker 6: It's like that's going to.
- 2:21Speaker 4: A gamble and then you got to wait and they
- 2:23Speaker 4: might have to develop these players.
- 2:24Speaker 6: I say he needs to do it.
- 2:26Speaker 4: He talks about he wants to win another championship. He's
- 2:29Speaker 4: not getting any younger. I think now is the time.
- 2:31Speaker 4: I hope he does to make a trade because it
- 2:33Speaker 4: would be a shame. And I guess my question to
- 2:36Speaker 4: you would be, I would like to see a guy
- 2:38Speaker 4: like Max Crosby if we can get him.
- 2:40Speaker 7: I mean, with that.
- 2:40Speaker 4: Energy, one guy will make a difference. He might not
- 2:43Speaker 4: make all the difference, but I think we need him,
- 2:45Speaker 4: maybe another player, maybe a new voice of DC and
- 2:48Speaker 4: a new scheme. I think at that defense, if he
- 2:50Speaker 4: can get a little bit better, I think, you know,
- 2:52Speaker 4: the Cowboys got a chance with this offense playing so good.
- 2:56Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, all right, Nate, thank you so much.
- 2:59Speaker 1: Appreciate you that that was a first time caller. So,
- 3:02Speaker 1: uh here we go to to Nate and and I,
- 3:06Speaker 1: you know, the point you're making is something I definitely
- 3:09Speaker 1: agree with, mainly because you know, you're always asking your
- 3:13Speaker 1: team to to do something really well. You know, if
- 3:16Speaker 1: you're gonna be a difference making team. You're gonna have
- 3:18Speaker 1: to do something just better, extraordinarily better than anyone else.
- 3:22Speaker 1: And and I think right now the offense is doing that.
- 3:24Speaker 1: Now your defense is at a clip that's worse than
- 3:27Speaker 1: everybody else. So fix that. Try to keep the offense
- 3:30Speaker 1: at the same level. You do that, I think you're
- 3:32Speaker 1: gonna win more games. And so to do that, I mean,
- 3:34Speaker 1: how do you get better? How do you get better
- 3:36Speaker 1: in in the middle of October? That's that's the question.
- 3:39Speaker 1: Do you have to go get a player? Do you
- 3:41Speaker 1: change the scheme, do you change your defensive coaches? Do
- 3:43Speaker 1: you change the voices in the room? What do you do?
- 3:46Speaker 1: And and and the answer could be more than one
- 3:49Speaker 1: of those and and then and some of them are drastic.
- 3:53Speaker 1: But you know what's the saying, Drastic times call for
- 3:57Speaker 1: drastic measures. And this is kind of what it is
- 3:59Speaker 1: when you're from the defensive side of the ball. All right,
- 4:02Speaker 1: let's go to Irene. She's next, Irene. What's up?
- 4:05Speaker 8: Hey, shout out mate, the great new caller. All right,
- 4:08Speaker 8: yea old caller here, But hey, okay, I'll give you
- 4:12Speaker 8: one thing that they could change was going to be
- 4:15Speaker 8: my call anyway. James Houston I'm a James Houston truther.
- 4:19Speaker 8: I have been since the preseason. I noticed because snapcount
- 4:23Speaker 8: went down almost in half. It was fourteen instead of
- 4:26Speaker 8: twenty seven the last week and twenty two the week before.
- 4:29Speaker 8: Both weeks with awtume look better. He god one and
- 4:32Speaker 8: a half secks. Tell me what goes into that thinking.
- 4:35Speaker 8: I do not understand why they, you know, don't have
- 4:38Speaker 8: him out there more. I'm not saying every single play,
- 4:40Speaker 8: but I don't get it, and it was a frustrating game.
- 4:44Speaker 8: So I did want to shout out George Pickens though,
- 4:47Speaker 8: because I feel like that got lost in the shuffle.
- 4:49Speaker 8: I know we talked about his game a little bit,
- 4:51Speaker 8: but he's incredible. He might be my favorite player at
- 4:54Speaker 8: this point.
- 4:55Speaker 9: He's so fun.
- 4:56Speaker 10: That hurdle was awesome.
- 4:58Speaker 8: Maybe put him out to block the last field.
- 5:00Speaker 11: I don't know.
- 5:02Speaker 1: Maybe, yeah, I don't know.
- 5:04Speaker 8: I mean, he's incredible.
- 5:06Speaker 1: He could jump the line. I know Sam Williams jumped there,
- 5:08Speaker 1: but I think he could jump it also, Yeah.
- 5:11Speaker 10: Yeah, exactly.
- 5:12Speaker 8: Maybe in an emergency situation like that.
- 5:14Speaker 12: I don't know.
- 5:16Speaker 8: I'm going to try to leave the lines open the
- 5:17Speaker 8: next couple of days, so I'll give.
- 5:19Speaker 10: My score prediction.
- 5:20Speaker 8: I actually I had this as a loss. Both of
- 5:22Speaker 8: the Washington games is a loss coming into the season.
- 5:26Speaker 8: I don't know.
- 5:27Speaker 10: They both look crappy on defense.
- 5:30Speaker 8: I think we're definitely the better offense. Obviously, I'm going
- 5:33Speaker 8: to give it to US forty one to seventy eight.
- 5:37Speaker 8: It's gonna be a nightmare game anyway.
- 5:39Speaker 1: All that's all with that, by all right, thank you,
- 5:41Speaker 1: all right, Well thanks for the call, Irene. You know,
- 5:44Speaker 1: I have an answer for you. I think I think
- 5:46Speaker 1: I have the answer. And you're asked about James Houston.
- 5:48Speaker 1: So I was looked up really quickly. You know, you're like,
- 5:50Speaker 1: why why did he play so much before? Why did
- 5:53Speaker 1: he not play before? You know so much there? Well,
- 5:55Speaker 1: what does he do? He rushes the passer. I don't
- 5:58Speaker 1: think he's considered your best runs opper at all. I
- 6:01Speaker 1: think he's one of your top pass rushers. Well, when
- 6:06Speaker 1: you look at third down efficiency, I'm looking at all
- 6:11Speaker 1: of the games and it's weird. Philadelphia, this is first
- 6:17Speaker 1: game of the season. This is how many third down
- 6:19Speaker 1: attempts Philadelphia had in Giants in Chicago and all that
- 6:22Speaker 1: thirteen fourteen, fourteen, fourteen sixteen, that was the Jets Carolina
- 6:28Speaker 1: eight three of eight. That's what Carolina was three of eight,
- 6:32Speaker 1: so sixteen third down attempts, which is typically passing situations
- 6:37Speaker 1: for the most part, sometimes you run, but you know,
- 6:40Speaker 1: third and long and then Carolina down to eight. That's
- 6:42Speaker 1: what happens on first and second down. When you can't
- 6:44Speaker 1: stop Rico o Daddle from six seven eight yards every
- 6:47Speaker 1: single time, then you're not getting in third and long.
- 6:49Speaker 1: That was the problem. They didn't get in situations where
- 6:52Speaker 1: James Houston could really affect the passer in the pass rush.
- 6:55Speaker 1: So that was part of it right there. And then
- 6:58Speaker 1: also I think it's safe to say that he's not
- 7:01Speaker 1: your every down player, so which is fine. You need
- 7:05Speaker 1: you need him to rush or rush the quarterback, do
- 7:08Speaker 1: what he does. But the Cowboys as a defensive unit
- 7:10Speaker 1: did not get in those situations as much. That's why
- 7:13Speaker 1: I think you saw a decline in his in his snapcount.
- 7:16Speaker 1: All right, Cosmo in the in Syracuse, New York, what's up, Hey,
- 7:23Speaker 1: how you doing?
- 7:24Speaker 12: I listen every day.
- 7:26Speaker 10: I just can't call because I work in normal nine
- 7:28Speaker 10: to five, so it's hard. I just wanted to say,
- 7:30Speaker 10: you do a great job. You and Chris are awesome,
- 7:32Speaker 10: thank you, and I got a chance to call today.
- 7:34Speaker 10: I just want to say things for everything you do,
- 7:37Speaker 10: and I'll let someone else.
- 7:38Speaker 1: Call in all right, Cosmo, appreciate that. I do remember
- 7:42Speaker 1: when I, you know, I charged all the calls and
- 7:44Speaker 1: writing it down, and I went back and we were
- 7:46Speaker 1: looking at some of the first few calls, and I
- 7:49Speaker 1: do remember writing that down. I remember that that you'd
- 7:51Speaker 1: called way back when. So thank you, and I understood. Yeah,
- 7:56Speaker 1: it's deserving of that, especially when he's like, I don't
- 7:59Speaker 1: have anything. I just want to I just want to
- 8:00Speaker 1: say what's up. We love love that you know always
- 8:06Speaker 1: and and I, you know, I just wanted to kind
- 8:08Speaker 1: of reiterate the fact that that some people do get
- 8:11Speaker 1: to call all the time. It works for their schedule.
- 8:13Speaker 1: Some people probably are listening have never called. Hey, you
- 8:16Speaker 1: guys are just as important as anyone else. We appreciate
- 8:19Speaker 1: that now we do. You know, this is a participation show,
- 8:22Speaker 1: so it's always great. If nobody called, then it wouldn't
- 8:24Speaker 1: be good. But but this is good for everybody. We
- 8:27Speaker 1: appreciate the ones that only text, that only listen, call
- 8:30Speaker 1: every once in a while, call every day, call sixteen
- 8:34Speaker 1: days in a row. We're good with that as well.
- 8:37Speaker 1: Speaking of JR and Avondale Arizona, I don't know what
- 8:41Speaker 1: the streak's at, but it's up there.
- 8:44Speaker 12: I think it's fourteen fourteen days in a row, so.
- 8:49Speaker 1: That's pretty awesome. Congrats.
- 8:52Speaker 12: Yeah, I think it's going to end this week, but
- 8:54Speaker 12: I'm gonna do my best anyway, hopefully doing well today.
- 8:59Speaker 12: I just want to say that I didn't realize how
- 9:01Speaker 12: boring kickoff and punt returns were got a certain without
- 9:06Speaker 12: a certain guy out there, because I would never miss
- 9:08Speaker 12: one of those. And now I stand up every time
- 9:11Speaker 12: he catches it because I anticipated him going all the way.
- 9:14Speaker 12: So I'm glad when he's he's going to be coming back.
- 9:18Speaker 12: I think it's going to change what we do on
- 9:20Speaker 12: on the special teams. Kind of bright side of I
- 9:22Speaker 12: think Lamb being out is it's allowed that to reconnect
- 9:27Speaker 12: with Fergie and to get Pickings going, and I wasn't.
- 9:32Speaker 12: I didn't realize how fast Pickens was until he hit
- 9:35Speaker 12: that slant for the touchdown. Yeah, it got he hit
- 9:38Speaker 12: another gear. Never saw him as really a speed guy, but.
- 9:43Speaker 1: He's he's really not you know, he's really not a
- 9:46Speaker 1: speed guy. I mean I'm not saying he's not he's
- 9:49Speaker 1: not super fast. I'm just talking about from as receivers go,
- 9:52Speaker 1: but what he is And I saw this at training camp.
- 9:54Speaker 1: I saw this like a few times. He's got the
- 9:57Speaker 1: longest stride you've ever seen. Like like he only he
- 10:01Speaker 1: caught the ball, like what the twenty five yard line,
- 10:04Speaker 1: he took six steps to the end zone. I mean
- 10:06Speaker 1: that's what it was. It was just touchdown, and like
- 10:09Speaker 1: he's he's he's got this A. He's a long stride.
- 10:11Speaker 1: Every time he gets the ball, like over the middle,
- 10:14Speaker 1: he's chewing up you know, yardage there. So I know
- 10:17Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a great situation. I want to
- 10:20Speaker 1: see more of that with him and CD and just
- 10:22Speaker 1: see how and win Ferguson and just see how great
- 10:25Speaker 1: this offense really could be.
- 10:27Speaker 12: Yeah, one thing about floor Noy, I mean he's not
- 10:31Speaker 12: like the other two guys, not like CD or or GP.
- 10:35Speaker 12: He's got more of a he's more like built like
- 10:38Speaker 12: a running back. So I want to see him. If
- 10:40Speaker 12: you're gonna run someone out in the backfield, let's let's
- 10:42Speaker 12: let it be flor Noy. And my last thing is,
- 10:47Speaker 12: what do they have to do to keep the distribution
- 10:49Speaker 12: up because CD comes back, it's gonna take a lot
- 10:52Speaker 12: of the targets. Just want to keep all these guys
- 10:54Speaker 12: in the game. And that's all I got.
- 10:58Speaker 6: All Right, have a.
- 10:59Speaker 1: Great too, all right, thank you, Thank you. Appreciate that.
- 11:04Speaker 1: You know, he's right about the excitement of Turpin just
- 11:08Speaker 1: having you know, just having him back there, you always
- 11:10Speaker 1: feel like he could, he could, you know, break one.
- 11:12Speaker 1: And you know who else thinks that way with Washington.
- 11:15Speaker 1: Washington probably feels that way as well. Lost a game
- 11:18Speaker 1: because of that. How do you keep the distribution up?
- 11:22Speaker 1: Just get open? I mean, that's that's the key. And
- 11:25Speaker 1: I mean, I think Dak has proven over the course
- 11:27Speaker 1: of his career that he's not worried about you know
- 11:31Speaker 1: whose stats. He's not worried about anybody's fantasy football team.
- 11:35Speaker 1: He's worried about getting the ball to the right guy
- 11:37Speaker 1: to move the sticks. And it doesn't really care. And
- 11:39Speaker 1: and sometimes that's a that's a detriment. It really is
- 11:44Speaker 1: because he does trust all of his players. And I
- 11:47Speaker 1: know we've all said it. There's been times where you
- 11:50Speaker 1: look at guys, it's third and nine and he forces
- 11:53Speaker 1: the ball in schoonmaker doesn't get to play or Tolbert
- 11:57Speaker 1: or you know, and you're like, can you force it
- 12:02Speaker 1: to someone else? But that's just that's what it is.
- 12:04Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's going to the read that that
- 12:07Speaker 1: of the guy that he thinks the ball should go
- 12:09Speaker 1: to and whoever that is, and then and I don't
- 12:11Speaker 1: really fault him for that, So I don't I don't
- 12:13Speaker 1: know how the distribution is going to go, but I
- 12:15Speaker 1: think he's going to throw it to the guy that
- 12:16Speaker 1: he thinks is open. All right, Dylan, And what's it off?
- 12:20Speaker 7: Balls?
- 12:20Speaker 1: Dylan? What's up?
- 12:22Speaker 5: What's going on?
- 12:23Speaker 13: Nick?
- 12:23Speaker 14: How are you doing good?
- 12:25Speaker 13: Still still recovering from watching Rico Dabble have his way
- 12:29Speaker 13: with our defense?
- 12:30Speaker 6: Yeah?
- 12:31Speaker 8: For sure.
- 12:32Speaker 14: But I just had a question and an opinion of
- 12:36Speaker 14: yours today. I haven't been at much this week, so
- 12:39Speaker 14: I don't know if it's already been talked about, but uh,
- 12:42Speaker 14: what is the sentiment about George Pickens getting extended?
- 12:45Speaker 13: Is it likely or is it more that it's unlikely.
- 12:47Speaker 15: Going to happen?
- 12:51Speaker 1: I don't know, I really I wish I had a
- 12:53Speaker 1: better answer there. I I just feel like, you know,
- 12:58Speaker 1: like if Micah was here, okay, and if Michael Parsons
- 13:02Speaker 1: was still on this team and this whole thing was happening,
- 13:05Speaker 1: I would say, he's going to be here. When is
- 13:08Speaker 1: the last time Jerry's ever let go of a player
- 13:10Speaker 1: that was that was having a great year, But he did,
- 13:14Speaker 1: he'd let go of Michael Parsons. Different circumstances, same agent,
- 13:19Speaker 1: but different circumstances, And so, you know, I don't know.
- 13:23Speaker 1: I would think the Cowboys are going to do their
- 13:26Speaker 1: best to try to keep him because they're seeing that
- 13:30Speaker 1: it's not a coincidence that Dak's having his best year
- 13:33Speaker 1: and I think him and CD and Ferguson's having his
- 13:35Speaker 1: best year, and I think having all these guys together,
- 13:39Speaker 1: I just think that they'll try to make it work.
- 13:40Speaker 1: I know you have another point of question, so I
- 13:42Speaker 1: only to get to that.
- 13:44Speaker 13: I was just gonna say, if they can't make it
- 13:46Speaker 13: work after this season and he just walks, it's pretty painful,
- 13:50Speaker 13: and I would That's what I was just going to say, Like,
- 13:52Speaker 13: if there was any possibility we would trade him before
- 13:56Speaker 13: the trade downline, I'm not saying I agree with that,
- 13:58Speaker 13: but I'm just I'm just thinking about it, like there
- 14:01Speaker 13: even be a scenario where Jerry might trade him away
- 14:04Speaker 13: to get a return on investment before the trade deadline.
- 14:08Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I guess I guess that's your the
- 14:11Speaker 1: best way. Thanks for the call, Dylan. You know, I
- 14:14Speaker 1: don't I don't know about trading pickings away. You know,
- 14:17Speaker 1: I just said that. I feel like it's it's one
- 14:22Speaker 1: of those situations. Thank you for the call, Dylan. But
- 14:26Speaker 1: I feel like it's one of those situations where you know,
- 14:30Speaker 1: if you've got a great thing going on offense, you
- 14:33Speaker 1: you have we know this is this is the case,
- 14:36Speaker 1: and it's got to be fixing the defense. You know,
- 14:38Speaker 1: you're still six games into this, you still have eleven
- 14:41Speaker 1: games to go. I want to ride the hothand on offense,
- 14:45Speaker 1: see what's happening there and see and see if you
- 14:47Speaker 1: can kind of build off of that. So as far
- 14:49Speaker 1: as trading him away, I don't know if that would be.
- 14:52Speaker 1: That's not that's not where where I would go. And
- 14:55Speaker 1: I think I would try to resign him. I think
- 14:57Speaker 1: you're seeing career seasons for guys around him and including
- 15:01Speaker 1: him and so and I think you know, he's needed
- 15:03Speaker 1: a situation that was you know, that was better for
- 15:07Speaker 1: him and and maybe a team that that was built
- 15:09Speaker 1: more around the offense like this one is. So I
- 15:12Speaker 1: think you're seeing him thrive and and and you know
- 15:15Speaker 1: he might want to stay here as well. I'm not
- 15:16Speaker 1: saying he's going to take less money. Players don't do that.
- 15:19Speaker 1: They really don't take less money. I mean, there may
- 15:21Speaker 1: be a case or two here and there, but they
- 15:24Speaker 1: might take less money in some category. But the way
- 15:27Speaker 1: it's probably spun to them and all that is that
- 15:29Speaker 1: they're getting more of this than this. Like he's going
- 15:32Speaker 1: to get a big contract and and you know, the
- 15:34Speaker 1: Cowboys are going to have to decide if it's worth
- 15:36Speaker 1: of him, you know, having that contract here and and
- 15:40Speaker 1: but they knew that going in. I mean, they weren't
- 15:42Speaker 1: just trying to trade for the for this year. I
- 15:44Speaker 1: mean they they traded for him young player to see
- 15:47Speaker 1: about maybe having him, you know, for for longer than
- 15:50Speaker 1: one year. So he'll he'll be a guy that you
- 15:53Speaker 1: certainly look at all. Right, Casey Joe in Kansas City,
- 15:57Speaker 1: Good morning, Nick, Are you good, sir? Good?
- 16:01Speaker 16: Good?
- 16:01Speaker 13: Hey?
- 16:01Speaker 12: Do you think since we got a surplus of wide
- 16:05Speaker 12: receivers coming back, that we could possibly trade for a
- 16:07Speaker 12: defensive player to another team?
- 16:09Speaker 1: Yeah? But which receiver are you trying to Well, I
- 16:14Speaker 1: wouldn't trade our top ones, but maybe you know Mingo
- 16:18Speaker 1: or ILLINOI or Tobert, maybe one of them.
- 16:21Speaker 5: I don't know, Uh what do you think?
- 16:24Speaker 1: Well, okay, this is this is where two calls, two
- 16:28Speaker 1: consecutive calls to kind of get married into one. If
- 16:32Speaker 1: if you're going to re sign Pickings then and you
- 16:36Speaker 1: need a defensive guy, then then I mean, I don't
- 16:40Speaker 1: like trading young players away. But the only guy of
- 16:43Speaker 1: that group that probably makes any sense is Flinoy. I mean,
- 16:46Speaker 1: I mean or or maybe Mingo. But I wouldn't think so.
- 16:50Speaker 1: I would think you'd have to probably get rid of Flinoy.
- 16:52Speaker 1: He's a young, you know, talented player that needs to
- 16:55Speaker 1: play more. He's a big, fast, strong receiver. I'm sure
- 16:59Speaker 1: somebody it would be interested in him. But if if
- 17:03Speaker 1: you're gonna, if you're not going to resign Pickens, then
- 17:07Speaker 1: then or there's a question about resigning him, then I'm
- 17:09Speaker 1: not trading away young offensive talent either. So you know,
- 17:15Speaker 1: I don't know if you have to trade any of
- 17:16Speaker 1: these guys right now. I mean, I really I don't.
- 17:18Speaker 1: I don't think you've got wide receivers that you would
- 17:21Speaker 1: want to trade or that would get you the kind
- 17:25Speaker 1: of value that you're looking for. So you know, it'll
- 17:29Speaker 1: be interesting to see how it all shakes out. You know,
- 17:31Speaker 1: now you do have Tolbert, Mingo Flinoy, that's you know what,
- 17:36Speaker 1: four five and six right there? Am I missing someone?
- 17:41Speaker 1: After Tolbert? I mean, I'm sorry, after Turpid and then
- 17:44Speaker 1: of course CD and Pickens. So you know, you might
- 17:49Speaker 1: have you might have some guys inactive that that you
- 17:51Speaker 1: haven't seen in a while. But I don't know if
- 17:54Speaker 1: that means trading them, because I don't think the value
- 17:57Speaker 1: that you're looking for is going.
- 18:00Speaker 7: To be there.
- 18:00Speaker 1: I think if you're gonna get defensive Van, I mean
- 18:02Speaker 1: you're probably gonna have the trade, you know, a draft
- 18:05Speaker 1: pick in a pretty considerable one.
- 18:07Speaker 6: With that.
- 18:07Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Robbie and Cocoa Beach. What
- 18:11Speaker 1: are you saying this, good man?
- 18:13Speaker 6: How are you outstanding?
- 18:15Speaker 14: Man?
- 18:16Speaker 12: So all I hear is trade, trade, trade, blitz. Let's
- 18:18Speaker 12: blitz fire coach. But that's all right, fand away You
- 18:23Speaker 12: want to fan right?
- 18:25Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, I mean if you did the first two things,
- 18:27Speaker 1: I don't know if you would need to do the
- 18:28Speaker 1: third thing.
- 18:29Speaker 7: You know.
- 18:30Speaker 12: I agree with that, my friend, I definitely do. Hey,
- 18:33Speaker 12: how do you think we're gonna do against the Redskins?
- 18:36Speaker 12: Are the Commanders use my language?
- 18:39Speaker 6: With the weekend coming up?
- 18:41Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I say it'll come down to the final
- 18:46Speaker 1: four minutes of the game. It'll be it'll be Oh yeah,
- 18:50Speaker 1: it's gonna come down to the very end of the game.
- 18:52Speaker 1: How does it get managed? You know, who hangs on
- 18:55Speaker 1: to the football, who doesn't make a key mistake, who
- 18:57Speaker 1: makes the field goal? Yeah, I think this game will
- 19:00Speaker 1: be able to come down to the very end.
- 19:02Speaker 12: Boy, all those things you just said. I could see
- 19:04Speaker 12: USA making a field goal.
- 19:05Speaker 13: I can see us making a mistake.
- 19:07Speaker 6: I could just do it good. I'll do it back.
- 19:09Speaker 6: And I'm telling you I love this game.
- 19:11Speaker 1: I'm telling you. If the Commanders had their own storyline,
- 19:14Speaker 1: which maybe they have a show like that, their fans
- 19:16Speaker 1: are probably saying, I could see us doing this. I
- 19:19Speaker 1: could see us making this stake, could you know. So
- 19:21Speaker 1: that's kind of the nature of being a fan.
- 19:24Speaker 6: But I sure love this game.
- 19:25Speaker 16: I love my team, man.
- 19:26Speaker 12: I'm going to root for him every week. And and
- 19:29Speaker 12: let's just hope our guys come back healthy and then
- 19:31Speaker 12: we get a agent. You'll come back in a month
- 19:34Speaker 12: or so.
- 19:36Speaker 13: We'll see it happens. Man.
- 19:37Speaker 12: All right, Hey, I have a great day, guys.
- 19:38Speaker 6: Thank you.
- 19:38Speaker 1: All right, you too. All right, let's go to Josh
- 19:42Speaker 1: and Princeton before we go to break Josh.
- 19:45Speaker 16: Hey, Nick, how was going.
- 19:49Speaker 6: All right?
- 19:49Speaker 12: Yeah?
- 19:49Speaker 16: So about a month ago I called in talking about
- 19:53Speaker 16: one of my favorite memories and talking about the two
- 19:55Speaker 16: thousand Thanks game. Yeah, I kind of want I want
- 19:59Speaker 16: to keep that going, and he with another one. So
- 20:02Speaker 16: twenty fourteen season opener I was at the game, had
- 20:07Speaker 16: a standing room only ticket. Cowboys forty nine ers. That
- 20:11Speaker 16: was the year that Jim Jones made the comment, you know,
- 20:15Speaker 16: off season about an uphill battle. So didn't have highest spectations.
- 20:21Speaker 16: Tony Romo had a terrible game. He had a sixty
- 20:24Speaker 16: quarterback rating, threw three picks, and I remember driving home
- 20:29Speaker 16: on thirty sitting in traffic, listening to the post game show,
- 20:32Speaker 16: saying and just thinking, yeah, it really is going to
- 20:35Speaker 16: be an uphill battle. And then lo and behold. DeMarco
- 20:41Speaker 16: Murray went on to have a record season. Romo had
- 20:43Speaker 16: one of his best seasons. Daz Bryant had a great
- 20:47Speaker 16: season and so my whole point is, it seems like
- 20:50Speaker 16: it's an uphill battle now, but things can turn around.
- 20:55Speaker 16: I'm just trying to be positive and have hope.
- 20:58Speaker 12: Now.
- 20:59Speaker 16: I get it, that was week one in twenty fourteen,
- 21:02Speaker 16: and we already played we have we've already played this game,
- 21:05Speaker 16: so if you can't really compare. But my point is
- 21:09Speaker 16: that it can it can change, it can turn around. Yeah,
- 21:12Speaker 16: I mean we have the offensive tools for sure.
- 21:15Speaker 1: All Right, well, I appreciate that. Thank you for the
- 21:19Speaker 1: for the call, and thanks for that reminder. I think
- 21:21Speaker 1: that's good to know. You know, when you look at seasons,
- 21:25Speaker 1: you know the first couple, you know, first game or two,
- 21:28Speaker 1: and even in this case, first we're six games. I mean,
- 21:32Speaker 1: it's still enough time to make changes. I think a
- 21:35Speaker 1: lot of people, even Dak referenced to the twenty eighteen season,
- 21:38Speaker 1: which was three and five at the bye week, and
- 21:42Speaker 1: they you know, went ten and six, and actually they
- 21:48Speaker 1: were three and four at the bye week and then
- 21:52Speaker 1: then lost to Tennessee to go to three and five
- 21:55Speaker 1: and then and then one I think seven out of
- 21:58Speaker 1: eight and and that loss. This is what's crazy about football. Here,
- 22:02Speaker 1: Cowboys go three and five and they They've made a
- 22:05Speaker 1: trade for Mari Cooper, trying to you know, turn things around,
- 22:09Speaker 1: and they win seven of their last eight games, but
- 22:12Speaker 1: the one loss was a twenty three to nothing loss
- 22:15Speaker 1: at Indianapolis where they just just did nothing. You know,
- 22:19Speaker 1: they'd won what six in a row and then go
- 22:21Speaker 1: in there and lose that game. So football is crazy
- 22:23Speaker 1: and crazy ways like that. I laugh when you say
- 22:26Speaker 1: that game because the only thing that I think of
- 22:29Speaker 1: about that game is is a quote that Mickey said
- 22:34Speaker 1: on the on the fan. They were trying to to
- 22:38Speaker 1: you know, just like anytime an opposing team comes into
- 22:42Speaker 1: AT and T Stadium, they have a lot of fans
- 22:44Speaker 1: and they you know, had something to yell about that day,
- 22:47Speaker 1: and so it was very It was very pro forty
- 22:50Speaker 1: nine or in that crowd. I don't know if it
- 22:52Speaker 1: was fifty to fifty, but it was pretty close. And
- 22:55Speaker 1: that color just popped out. And I remember them asking
- 22:58Speaker 1: Mickey there was a lot of red stadium and he goes, well,
- 23:01Speaker 1: define red. And I don't know why. That just is
- 23:04Speaker 1: funny to me because that's that was Mickey. Mickey's got
- 23:07Speaker 1: answer for everything, and that one was well, define red.
- 23:10Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what was read to you.
- 23:13Speaker 1: It was forty nine or red. That was the definition,
- 23:15Speaker 1: and they won the game. But as Josh's point here
- 23:19Speaker 1: is that Cowboys turn things around, and even though it's
- 23:22Speaker 1: been six games, look at the NFL right now, I mean,
- 23:24Speaker 1: who's who's good? Think about that as we go to break,
- 23:28Speaker 1: Who's really good? Who's a really really good football team
- 23:32Speaker 1: that is absolutely running away with anyone that can can
- 23:35Speaker 1: win every single game and is not gonna lose. You
- 23:39Speaker 1: find that that team that's what makes this this season
- 23:42Speaker 1: is gonna be very interesting. Let's go to break here
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- 25:56Speaker 6: Dylan, Hey, Nick, how you doing? Man?
- 25:58Speaker 1: Good Man?
- 25:58Speaker 7: How are you?
- 26:00Speaker 20: I'm good?
- 26:01Speaker 7: I'm good.
- 26:01Speaker 6: Thanks.
- 26:02Speaker 20: So kind of a big picture call today. A lot
- 26:05Speaker 20: of people talking about and even today people have been
- 26:08Speaker 20: talking about it trades and what to do with Pickens
- 26:10Speaker 20: and all that, and that it's just they're in such
- 26:13Speaker 20: a weird spot right now because of Dak's age and
- 26:16Speaker 20: his contract and how much longer he's potentially got and
- 26:20Speaker 20: so they've got two first round picks. They've got George Pickens.
- 26:24Speaker 6: I don't disagree.
- 26:26Speaker 20: If you're not going to sign, that's a decision they
- 26:28Speaker 20: have to make right now. Are they going to do
- 26:29Speaker 20: everything in their power to sign him or not?
- 26:33Speaker 12: Right?
- 26:34Speaker 20: Because if they're not going to I don't want to
- 26:36Speaker 20: wait two years for a third or a fourth round
- 26:38Speaker 20: comp pick to come through. I want I want that
- 26:41Speaker 20: second second, whatever you're going to get for him, I
- 26:44Speaker 20: want it now. So if you're not going to do
- 26:45Speaker 20: everything you can to sign him, trade him away now.
- 26:48Speaker 20: If you are, then that's great. I think they really
- 26:50Speaker 20: got to consider finally attacking free agency.
- 26:53Speaker 6: I know we all want it, but with.
- 26:55Speaker 20: DA's age, they've really got to attack free agency this
- 26:58Speaker 20: next year and capitalize the last two or three years
- 27:01Speaker 20: they have a good deal because they might not have
- 27:02Speaker 20: him again depending on how the rest of his contract
- 27:05Speaker 20: goes and his age. I know he says he wants
- 27:07Speaker 20: to play into the forties.
- 27:08Speaker 12: But they're into.
- 27:09Speaker 20: Such a precarious spot with everything that's going on that
- 27:13Speaker 20: they need to consider carefully today, right now, moving forward.
- 27:16Speaker 20: I know the front office desk, that's how front office
- 27:18Speaker 20: is operate. They think two three years in the vans.
- 27:20Speaker 20: But they need to consider specifically George Pickens what they're
- 27:22Speaker 20: going to do with him right now today, you know,
- 27:25Speaker 20: before the season's over. And I hope they're doing that.
- 27:28Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I'm looking at the franchise tag potential franchise
- 27:34Speaker 1: tag numbers. Yeah, and They're all kind of all over
- 27:37Speaker 1: the map because I'm seeing maybe around twenty five million,
- 27:41Speaker 1: and then the projection is twenty eight.
- 27:44Speaker 20: First, yeah, I was hearing close to thirty. But I
- 27:46Speaker 20: think the bigger issue with the tag is if George
- 27:48Speaker 20: Pickens does everything right on the field, everything right in
- 27:51Speaker 20: the locker room.
- 27:52Speaker 6: I hate to get.
- 27:52Speaker 20: Psychological, but psychologically, what does that do to a guy
- 27:55Speaker 20: like George Pickens if the team doesn't say, hey, we
- 27:57Speaker 20: have enough faith in you that we're now going to
- 27:59Speaker 20: get of your contract. If he gets tagged, do you
- 28:02Speaker 20: think that has a potential psychological impact on him moving forward?
- 28:05Speaker 1: Maybe? I know big money, so yeah, I mean it's
- 28:08Speaker 1: it's it's big time money.
- 28:10Speaker 6: Uh.
- 28:10Speaker 1: You know he'll have a contract offer though, I mean
- 28:13Speaker 1: obviously before all that and and that's that's what he's
- 28:16Speaker 1: gonna have to have to decide.
- 28:19Speaker 16: Uh.
- 28:19Speaker 1: I say that, I would imagine the Cowboys would would
- 28:22Speaker 1: offer him. He's just been too good and and you're
- 28:26Speaker 1: you're looking for for playmakers, you know, you you're you're
- 28:29Speaker 1: looking for guys that can make a difference to a team.
- 28:32Speaker 1: And I just don't see. Yes, you've paid CD, but
- 28:36Speaker 1: you know you were gonna pay Micah Parsons. I mean,
- 28:38Speaker 1: you were going to do that, and I understand that
- 28:40Speaker 1: that's a completely different side of the ball, but it's
- 28:42Speaker 1: not like you don't have money to do it. You're
- 28:45Speaker 1: looking for difference makers on your team, and I think
- 28:48Speaker 1: that that's what one thing that has shown. But what
- 28:50Speaker 1: I want to see, and I think all of us
- 28:52Speaker 1: want to see this too, is let's see more games
- 28:56Speaker 1: when they're both doing that, and if that happens, where
- 28:59Speaker 1: they go and win in a big time game where
- 29:01Speaker 1: one guy's got one thirty one guy's got eighty five,
- 29:04Speaker 1: but the two touchdowns or whatever it is, and they're
- 29:06Speaker 1: both making huge plays and showing wow, what they can
- 29:10Speaker 1: do together, then I think I think that the Cowboys
- 29:13Speaker 1: would be silly not to try to keep him.
- 29:16Speaker 20: Yeah, I agree, and especially given decks window. I mean,
- 29:20Speaker 20: they're going to have the wiggle room capwise, because you
- 29:23Speaker 20: don't have Micah. You're gonna pay less for him, so
- 29:26Speaker 20: you'll still have the wiggle room to navigate this defensive
- 29:29Speaker 20: rebuild moving into next season. You've got all these draft picks.
- 29:32Speaker 20: I mean, they're gonna if they were smart, in my opinion,
- 29:35Speaker 20: ye as soon as the season's over, man, I'm trying
- 29:37Speaker 20: to sign him immediately, get that done, and then focus
- 29:39Speaker 20: on rebuilding this defense moving forward. There's no Twinston's like
- 29:42Speaker 20: you said that Deck's having maybe the best season of
- 29:44Speaker 20: his career with him.
- 29:46Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, thanks for the call, Dylan, And next thing,
- 29:50Speaker 1: you know, I love hey. I love watching CD Lamb
- 29:53Speaker 1: play too. I mean, he's he's awesome, and he's been
- 29:55Speaker 1: great for this team and franchise, and he's you know,
- 29:59Speaker 1: it's funny, he's like three hundred yards away from being
- 30:01Speaker 1: the third third highest, you know, have the third most
- 30:06Speaker 1: receiving yards in Cowboych's history. I still feel like he's
- 30:10Speaker 1: kind of a young guy, you know, yeah, a new player,
- 30:13Speaker 1: but he's not. He's one of the oldest players on
- 30:16Speaker 1: the team. He was here in twenty twenty, and you know,
- 30:20Speaker 1: that's how great he's been. My point is is that
- 30:23Speaker 1: there are some things that Pickens does maybe better than CD.
- 30:26Speaker 1: You know, I think he is a he's a bad
- 30:30Speaker 1: ball catcher. Pickens is I mean, he catches the ball everywhere,
- 30:35Speaker 1: and I just think he does so many great things
- 30:39Speaker 1: as far as underneath stuff, deep ball, he draws pass interference.
- 30:44Speaker 1: I'm not saying this isn't an argument about who's the
- 30:47Speaker 1: better player. I'm saying there's aspects of his game that
- 30:49Speaker 1: I think is better. I think there's things that CD
- 30:51Speaker 1: does better as well. That's why they compliment each other.
- 30:55Speaker 1: It's a great problem to have because I could say this,
- 30:58Speaker 1: most teams don't have a corner back or two cornerbacks
- 31:01Speaker 1: that can that can check them. So I think as
- 31:05Speaker 1: if they keep playing and keep playing together, I think
- 31:08Speaker 1: that you know, and and again there's no coincidence, Ferguson,
- 31:11Speaker 1: there's no coincidence, no coincience. The running game was was playing,
- 31:15Speaker 1: you know, it was running really well. And so you
- 31:18Speaker 1: get all your pieces back, I think you're going to
- 31:20Speaker 1: have an unbelievable explosive offense that I think the Cowboys
- 31:25Speaker 1: are going to try to keep that intact for one
- 31:27Speaker 1: way or another. Uh try to do that. All right,
- 31:30Speaker 1: Let's go to uh Rick in Webster, Massachusetts. Rick, what's up?
- 31:34Speaker 21: Man?
- 31:35Speaker 6: Hey? Nick?
- 31:35Speaker 15: How you doing good? Still recovering from being sipped over
- 31:41Speaker 15: the weekend and everything?
- 31:42Speaker 1: But all right, physically sick or Carolina sick?
- 31:47Speaker 15: Physically sick?
- 31:49Speaker 1: All right, Well that's that's real bad. Then you probably yeah, both.
- 31:55Speaker 15: Well, a couple of things.
- 31:56Speaker 6: One is.
- 31:59Speaker 15: I don't agree with doing anything with Pickens. I would
- 32:03Speaker 15: say just either sign him or franchise m tag and
- 32:07Speaker 15: then sign him. You know, as you said we were
- 32:10Speaker 15: gonna give uh Mike forty, we can give we can
- 32:14Speaker 15: get Pickens thirty. So that saves us ten million dollars
- 32:18Speaker 15: right there, and you've got to still get to want
- 32:20Speaker 15: to But as far as right now, my uh, there's
- 32:24Speaker 15: a odd things going. How about I know they probably
- 32:27Speaker 15: won't do it, but how about a little bin uh
- 32:30Speaker 15: Wilson up to be a linebacker a play like like
- 32:34Speaker 15: your build a ball a couple of years ago and
- 32:36Speaker 15: have being close to the line so he can you know,
- 32:39Speaker 15: do some buy biker blitz or just cover the runner
- 32:43Speaker 15: from Mike Darris. He's going forward and he has, you know,
- 32:48Speaker 15: the mind you look to word of with have to
- 32:50Speaker 15: be in and stuff like that to make plays instead
- 32:53Speaker 15: of being back at a safety position to try to
- 32:57Speaker 15: cover people. Maybe bring Elijah Clark into that position next
- 33:01Speaker 15: to Thomas right now. But you know the last week
- 33:06Speaker 15: that the film I've seen from other people covering it
- 33:09Speaker 15: is that h Kenny Murray looks lost. Every time he
- 33:13Speaker 15: looks like you looking. He's like which side of way,
- 33:16Speaker 15: which way to go? He's standing there not doing anything, Yeah,
- 33:20Speaker 15: but you know the player's going one way, he's going
- 33:23Speaker 15: the other way. Yeah, So that you know, something like that,
- 33:26Speaker 15: I would take him off the field and luve Wilson
- 33:29Speaker 15: up and then play Elijah Clark. But those are my
- 33:32Speaker 15: thoughts there at Florida's score probably gonna be, you know,
- 33:35Speaker 15: a close game. I would think something like probably forty
- 33:39Speaker 15: three forty cowboys.
- 33:41Speaker 1: All right, thank you. I'll be a fun game. That
- 33:46Speaker 1: won't help beaver Flus at all. But but you know,
- 33:49Speaker 1: if they get to win, I guess it'll be all good.
- 33:52Speaker 1: You know, with anything that you're trying, any kind of
- 33:55Speaker 1: changes that you make, I mean you have to you
- 33:58Speaker 1: have to wonder, you know what, what's the flip side
- 34:01Speaker 1: of that? You know, it's the other side of the pancake.
- 34:04Speaker 1: As Par Sales would say, Uh yeah, I played Don
- 34:07Speaker 1: and Wilson closer to the line of scrimmage. You know,
- 34:10Speaker 1: I'm a physical guy. He can he could play down
- 34:12Speaker 1: there and then when they when they're passing underneath routes
- 34:15Speaker 1: and things like that, he's got the quickness to do
- 34:17Speaker 1: that and maybe get to the ball carry and all that.
- 34:19Speaker 1: Third and five, Yeah, that sounds great, but what if
- 34:22Speaker 1: they run the draw play. What if they decide, you
- 34:24Speaker 1: know what, third and five, we think we can get this.
- 34:28Speaker 1: So what we're gonna do is, we're gonna take this guard.
- 34:30Speaker 1: See number six right there, he's going right at him.
- 34:33Speaker 1: The running back will be there. We're gonna knock him backwards,
- 34:36Speaker 1: and we're just gonna run it on him. And if
- 34:38Speaker 1: if we don't even get five, if we get four,
- 34:41Speaker 1: we'll do it again. We'll just run it again on
- 34:43Speaker 1: fourth down. You know, that's what the analytics say, right
- 34:45Speaker 1: fourth anything under fourth and two. So my point is
- 34:49Speaker 1: is that you know, if you're going to do that
- 34:52Speaker 1: and you want to be quicker with your past coverage, guys,
- 34:57Speaker 1: don't forget they run at you too. And Marky's all
- 35:00Speaker 1: got run on a lot, a lot. And there were
- 35:02Speaker 1: games when they decided, you know what, let's just go
- 35:05Speaker 1: hat on a hat and we're gonna knock number fourteen
- 35:07Speaker 1: off the ball. And they did Arizona game Week three,
- 35:10Speaker 1: that terrible game where James Connor ran for two hundred
- 35:13Speaker 1: yards and you know they I can't even remember the
- 35:17Speaker 1: quarterbacks name that they lost to Jock Dobbs, I think
- 35:21Speaker 1: it was what it was. I mean, it was a
- 35:23Speaker 1: bad game. But Marquise Bell, there's there was a lot
- 35:25Speaker 1: of that going on where they were running at him.
- 35:27Speaker 1: So what he What players give you on one side,
- 35:32Speaker 1: you know, mismatches or mismatches both ways. You got to
- 35:35Speaker 1: you gotta remember that, you know, Dirk Noavinski, Dirk Nevinski
- 35:40Speaker 1: with the greatest players of all time, Dallas Mavericks, couldn't
- 35:43Speaker 1: stop him over here and always cover guys on the
- 35:46Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. That's my point. Mismatches both
- 35:49Speaker 1: both both ways. Josh in Chicago, next, how's it going good?
- 35:55Speaker 9: Not too bad? Hey, So I kind of before the
- 35:58Speaker 9: break you asked about one team that just that's really good?
- 36:01Speaker 9: Scared Yeah, I mean, I think the Colts look really good,
- 36:04Speaker 9: but they've also played some teams that everyone kind of
- 36:06Speaker 9: says are bad. Right, So I think every team right
- 36:08Speaker 9: now looks beatable. And I think that's your point, right,
- 36:10Speaker 9: Every every team right now in the league has.
- 36:12Speaker 1: Had a loss, And no Cowboy fan is going to
- 36:16Speaker 1: go with you on that because who's their quarterback? Yeah,
- 36:21Speaker 1: and I get it, and he might be Daniel Jones
- 36:23Speaker 1: might be playing better than he then he has, you know,
- 36:26Speaker 1: when he was with New York. He's got better guys
- 36:28Speaker 1: around him, but it's still Daniel Jones. And and until
- 36:32Speaker 1: that he comes in there and recks the Cowboys. That
- 36:34Speaker 1: that's what's what you're gonna think, right So, and then
- 36:37Speaker 1: you know, Cowboys don't play the Colts, so that doesn't
- 36:39Speaker 1: really matter. The Lions are a team that that you know,
- 36:42Speaker 1: they they could be pretty good. I mean, they they
- 36:45Speaker 1: look like they are. They They've had some tough losses.
- 36:48Speaker 1: You know, they lost to the Packers and and and
- 36:50Speaker 1: the Chiefs right on the road. But they look pretty good.
- 36:54Speaker 1: But no, I'm just saying, but beatable. I think everybody is.
- 36:59Speaker 9: I agree, and I it's funny you bring up the
- 37:01Speaker 9: Lions because kind of my big picture look is when
- 37:03Speaker 9: you look at how good this offense really is, they're
- 37:06Speaker 9: the third highest scoring offense behind the Colts and the Lions.
- 37:09Speaker 9: The defense is, you know, obviously terrible. There's only one
- 37:13Speaker 9: team that's given up more points and that's the Baltimore
- 37:15Speaker 9: Ravens and the Cowboys defense. So it really does come
- 37:18Speaker 9: down and that the point differential for the Cowboys right
- 37:20Speaker 9: now is like minus six so if you really do
- 37:23Speaker 9: get just a handful more plays from the defense, this
- 37:27Speaker 9: could really be something. I think the next three games
- 37:30Speaker 9: are before the trade deadline are what becomes really important.
- 37:32Speaker 9: Like go out there and see and beat the Commanders,
- 37:34Speaker 9: go out there and beat the Broncos and the Cardinals,
- 37:38Speaker 9: and you might be getting some players back too, where
- 37:41Speaker 9: it looks like, hey, maybe a trade. I don't want
- 37:42Speaker 9: to give up a first round pick personally, but maybe
- 37:45Speaker 9: that second round pick is somebody you can give up
- 37:47Speaker 9: for a really good defensive player. Still, that's kind of
- 37:50Speaker 9: my big picture.
- 37:51Speaker 6: Look.
- 37:51Speaker 9: Other than that, I'm gonna sip some coffee and my
- 37:53Speaker 9: yetti cup. Thanks again, All.
- 37:54Speaker 1: Right, appreciate it. You know, it's all right there. It's
- 37:59Speaker 1: all everyone there. Nobody's out of anything right now. But
- 38:04Speaker 1: you know, I feel like the Cowboys have a pretty
- 38:06Speaker 1: good team, especially on offense. Got to fix some things
- 38:09Speaker 1: on defense. But you look at the standings. I mean,
- 38:12Speaker 1: there's sixteen teams in the NFC, right sixteen in each conference,
- 38:16Speaker 1: and there's twelve teams that have a better record than
- 38:19Speaker 1: the Cowboys right now, you know, so out of the sixteen,
- 38:23Speaker 1: you know, when you when you look at playoff picture,
- 38:25Speaker 1: if they put a graphic on the screen and all
- 38:26Speaker 1: that in the hunt and maybe Cowboys would be way
- 38:29Speaker 1: over here. I don't even know if they would even
- 38:30Speaker 1: make the screen. There's you know, there's twelve teams better
- 38:35Speaker 1: than the Cowboys, you know, and so you got to
- 38:39Speaker 1: get got to get in that top seven. It's gonna
- 38:43Speaker 1: be tough, There's no doubt about it, especially with this
- 38:45Speaker 1: is the time of the schedule that they you know,
- 38:48Speaker 1: you've got to get wins like that. You've got you
- 38:50Speaker 1: had to get that win against Carolina, but they didn't.
- 38:52Speaker 1: I mean, so you can't harp on it. But those
- 38:55Speaker 1: are the kind of games that you got to beat.
- 38:58Speaker 1: And one of the teams that's that's ahead of you,
- 39:01Speaker 1: you know, is is Carolina at three and three? I
- 39:05Speaker 1: mean because they beat you, so that that that's you know,
- 39:08Speaker 1: there would be another team that you would you would
- 39:10Speaker 1: be ahead of there. So Chicago's as well. All right,
- 39:14Speaker 1: Chris in Saratoga Springs. Let's go to Chris.
- 39:17Speaker 7: Hey, Nick, how's it going not too bad? I think
- 39:22Speaker 7: we'll be fine. I think we got to win this
- 39:24Speaker 7: game obviously against Washington. Big Game Division. My opinion lasts
- 39:30Speaker 7: like twenty five years as we've had two outstanding quarterbacks
- 39:34Speaker 7: Romo and Dak, and we're kind of squandering their careers
- 39:38Speaker 7: with our terrible defenses, we really got to pick it up.
- 39:42Speaker 7: I think if we can pull out a move next
- 39:44Speaker 7: couple of weeks like the Ravens did when they signed
- 39:46Speaker 7: Ropeland Smith, I think that would be huge for our defense.
- 39:49Speaker 7: We need we need somebody like that. If we can't
- 39:51Speaker 7: get anybody like that, I would I would just keep
- 39:54Speaker 7: the draft picks, and I would an earlier callers set
- 39:56Speaker 7: about trading my boy Illinoy. I would definitely not move
- 39:59Speaker 7: that kid. I think he's outstanding, and I think that
- 40:02Speaker 7: would be a mistake if we move somebody like him.
- 40:05Speaker 7: I don't think anybody's gonna want to look at Tobert
- 40:07Speaker 7: or Mingo for any kind of trade opportunities. But I
- 40:10Speaker 7: think defensively we need a game change around defense. I
- 40:13Speaker 7: know we're getting email back like I said before, but
- 40:16Speaker 7: I think if we can pull off a move like
- 40:18Speaker 7: the Ravens did with Ropeline, I think that would really
- 40:20Speaker 7: really help us. What are your thoughts on that?
- 40:22Speaker 1: Yeah, but I agree with you. I mean, you're gonna
- 40:25Speaker 1: have to give up a pretty, you know, pretty good
- 40:28Speaker 1: draft pick. Maybe a second round pick, maybe you know,
- 40:30Speaker 1: the late first or whatever. But you know, for a
- 40:36Speaker 1: receiver standpoint, like, that's the reason why I even mentioned
- 40:39Speaker 1: I don't want I wouldn't want to trade him either,
- 40:42Speaker 1: But you know, teams, teams get to decide what what
- 40:46Speaker 1: the trade goes. You know, you have to you have
- 40:47Speaker 1: to both agree. So it's going to have to be
- 40:50Speaker 1: a young player that that somebody else would want, you know,
- 40:53Speaker 1: So to get something good, you're gonna usually have to
- 40:56Speaker 1: give up something and and and you you know that.
- 40:58Speaker 1: That's that's the only reason why I would mention. But
- 41:00Speaker 1: I'm not doing that. If I'm not if I'm not
- 41:02Speaker 1: signing pickings, I mean, I gotta get him signed. If
- 41:06Speaker 1: you're gonna do all that, I mean, you got to
- 41:08Speaker 1: secure your your your future there at wide receiver. All right,
- 41:11Speaker 1: let's take a break here on the storyline and'll be
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- 42:29Speaker 1: Guys. If you play Fortnite, there's an all new Cowboys
- 42:32Speaker 1: kickoff quest Secret Red Versus Blue powered by Lenovo searts.
- 42:36Speaker 1: The map code two six seven nine seven four four
- 42:39Speaker 1: two three nine four zero at fortnite dot com. Chris,
- 42:45Speaker 1: you play that you're gonna play Fortnite there Cowboys kickoff quest?
- 42:51Speaker 1: I may you might do that? All right? Maybe you know,
- 42:55Speaker 1: let me know next time you play. I haven't played,
- 42:57Speaker 1: you know, I haven't played. While I haven't played in
- 42:59Speaker 1: a while. There there was a time we'd play a
- 43:01Speaker 1: lot every night every night. I mean together we get
- 43:04Speaker 1: like twenty kills. I mean I get like a good
- 43:07Speaker 1: two and he get eighteen. But whatever, it's a team, right,
- 43:10Speaker 1: It's a team, and there's about the team. There's no
- 43:12Speaker 1: finger pointing in Fortnite. Okay, you know what got the offense?
- 43:16Speaker 1: I was kind of the defensive side of Fortnite. But
- 43:19Speaker 1: that's that's fine. Chris in San Angelo, what's up?
- 43:25Speaker 5: Hell hey, mister Nick, how you doing shirt?
- 43:27Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you?
- 43:28Speaker 5: I'm doing well? Thank you?
- 43:30Speaker 12: Hey.
- 43:31Speaker 5: I was thinking about something back when the Cowboys made
- 43:35Speaker 5: the big trade, the mockt trade. Do you know if
- 43:38Speaker 5: they had to be thinking of maybe one person who's
- 43:43Speaker 5: going to really, you know, like take a chunk out
- 43:46Speaker 5: of that production and help. Maybe maybe they're thinking group,
- 43:50Speaker 5: but you know they might have been thinking, Okay, this
- 43:53Speaker 5: guy's gonna surprise, and that still could happen. I'm just
- 43:57Speaker 5: wondering who you think they might have.
- 43:59Speaker 1: Been thinking as that's who, That's who they were thinking.
- 44:04Speaker 1: They were thinking as a as a Rock who you know,
- 44:07Speaker 1: had some practices, you know, in training camp Ox and
- 44:09Speaker 1: already was doing pretty good and and they thought he
- 44:12Speaker 1: was going to turn the corner and he still might.
- 44:14Speaker 1: I mean, he's a good young player. I think he's
- 44:16Speaker 1: going to be fine. But I think as a Rock
- 44:18Speaker 1: who was one that they were kind of hoping that
- 44:20Speaker 1: he would he would push forward there and kneeling and
- 44:24Speaker 1: Fowler is going to have another good year.
- 44:26Speaker 5: And yeah, but that was exactly my answer because I'm thinking, well, yeah,
- 44:31Speaker 5: he's a rookie, but I mean he can rush the
- 44:34Speaker 5: pastor right, so there you go. Yeah, but yeah, that
- 44:38Speaker 5: was that was kind of where I was on. That
- 44:40Speaker 5: was was mainly him. I didn't know if you had
- 44:43Speaker 5: anyone else that they're thinking, hey, we got this guy,
- 44:46Speaker 5: just wait and see. It could still happen, Like I said.
- 44:50Speaker 1: Yeah it could. Uh. I think everybody knew that this
- 44:55Speaker 1: was going they were gonna suffer in the past rush.
- 44:59Speaker 11: You know.
- 45:01Speaker 1: I think that they believe that the running game was stopping,
- 45:06Speaker 1: the run was going to be better, but it just
- 45:09Speaker 1: you know, it hasn't happened yet. You know, we've seen
- 45:13Speaker 1: some holes there in the running game the last two weeks.
- 45:16Speaker 1: Of course, the last one was you know, atrocious, but
- 45:21Speaker 1: still had opportunities to win the game. And that's because
- 45:25Speaker 1: of your offensive production. And so you're gonna you need
- 45:28Speaker 1: to lean on that and and try to make these
- 45:30Speaker 1: tweaks on defense to to to get better, make a
- 45:33Speaker 1: few more stops. All right, Emory in North Carolina will
- 45:36Speaker 1: be our last caller. Emory, what's up?
- 45:38Speaker 6: Good morning, Nick? How you doing? Man? I al'tost remember me, Man,
- 45:41Speaker 6: I was in New York a couple of times with
- 45:43Speaker 6: you when you were out there to see the game.
- 45:46Speaker 6: But anyway, I want to say real quick right that
- 45:49Speaker 6: our right tackle number seveny eight, I'm not really you know,
- 45:52Speaker 6: as far as names or anything, but steel. He They
- 45:55Speaker 6: said that he was a good tackle for running. I
- 46:00Speaker 6: disagree with that. As far as pass blocking, he's I
- 46:04Speaker 6: don't think he should be over there. I think some
- 46:06Speaker 6: of the substitutes that we had replaced a lot of
- 46:09Speaker 6: those guys with over there, they compliment and making him
- 46:13Speaker 6: a little better because he needs to help. But to
- 46:16Speaker 6: have a dominant right tack over there. He's not that
- 46:18Speaker 6: one as far as the defensive backs go, you know,
- 46:24Speaker 6: And I did just found this out that the defensive
- 46:26Speaker 6: back coach we had we let him go. Why did?
- 46:29Speaker 6: Why do we let him go? When he was not
- 46:32Speaker 6: only a motivator, but I mean like he got the
- 46:36Speaker 6: guys ready for every game.
- 46:37Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a difference of opinion on Al Harris. You're
- 46:40Speaker 1: talking about Al Harris. Uh. Yeah, there's a difference difference
- 46:47Speaker 1: of opinion in the in the in the building about
- 46:51Speaker 1: about how how good he is, how good of a
- 46:54Speaker 1: teacher he was, and also if he if he had
- 47:01Speaker 1: the big picture with you know, with the Cowboys and
- 47:03Speaker 1: everybody else in in in the right frame of mind
- 47:06Speaker 1: as far as you know, being on the same page
- 47:08Speaker 1: with what the organization is wanting. And also, I mean
- 47:11Speaker 1: he was a let me just say this, he's a
- 47:12Speaker 1: players coach, no doubt about it. A really good one
- 47:15Speaker 1: and a really good players coach. But sometimes on players
- 47:19Speaker 1: coaches it doesn't always align with with what what everyone else.
- 47:22Speaker 1: I just think it was it was just him and
- 47:24Speaker 1: Zimmer didn't get along. That that was very evident. And uh,
- 47:29Speaker 1: and I think that it was his time to make
- 47:30Speaker 1: big changes on both both sides of the ball. He
- 47:33Speaker 1: didn't think he was going to get the coordinator's job,
- 47:35Speaker 1: and so when he had an opportunity to leave, he
- 47:37Speaker 1: he did. The players do miss him, There's no doubt
- 47:40Speaker 1: about it, and I think the defensive backs miss him,
- 47:43Speaker 1: but I don't think they.
- 47:44Speaker 6: Were going to This guy is horrible. He's horrible.
- 47:52Speaker 1: Yeah, well all right, thanks, yeah, thanks for the call. Imbri.
- 47:57Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I know you you had more to say.
- 47:58Speaker 1: We got to kind of get it moved. I'll say
- 48:00Speaker 1: this though about Elam I mean, I had a conversation
- 48:02Speaker 1: with him right before training game. He was talking about
- 48:04Speaker 1: why he didn't work out in Buffalo, and he was
- 48:06Speaker 1: saying that, you know what what they what he's done
- 48:10Speaker 1: in Florida and what they did at Buffalo, they were surprised.
- 48:13Speaker 1: He was surprised that they drafted him, knowing that he
- 48:16Speaker 1: was a man corner and that's how he's played most
- 48:19Speaker 1: of his career, and then to get to Buffalo and
- 48:22Speaker 1: play in a different scheme, you know, he was he
- 48:25Speaker 1: was a little surprised, and he was happy, he said,
- 48:28Speaker 1: going into to this scheme and just kind of what
- 48:30Speaker 1: they're going to be able to do. And looking with
- 48:34Speaker 1: you know, eyes forward, but also but also covering, you know,
- 48:37Speaker 1: playing a little bit more man coverage. And then ironically,
- 48:41Speaker 1: as it turned out, he hasn't he hasn't done that.
- 48:43Speaker 1: He hasn't really played they haven't played, uh, the style
- 48:47Speaker 1: that that he wants to play. So Jerry Jones said
- 48:49Speaker 1: it on the on his radio show the other day.
- 48:51Speaker 1: Maybe you'll maybe you will see more man this week.
- 48:55Speaker 1: I'd like to everybody wants to see it. You're gonna
- 48:57Speaker 1: give up big plays. You're gonna give up more plays
- 49:00Speaker 1: by doing it, you know, but you also should get
- 49:03Speaker 1: some as well. If if you're gonna you know, blitz
- 49:06Speaker 1: and and and get after the quarterback more. But you
- 49:08Speaker 1: gotta be careful. And this is a different this is
- 49:10Speaker 1: a different animal to blitz with Jayden Daniels because, uh,
- 49:13Speaker 1: you know he's he's a long strider as well, and
- 49:15Speaker 1: he when he breaks free, you know, he's got some
- 49:18Speaker 1: he he'll have some long runs too. But I'm sure
- 49:21Speaker 1: they'll have something for him. It will be an interesting game.
- 49:23Speaker 1: Dan Quinn comes back and uh, you know that Washington
- 49:26Speaker 1: hasn't been great. They've been pretty good, but they're they're
- 49:29Speaker 1: right there where the Cowboys. The other record is very similar,
- 49:31Speaker 1: so I would expect a pretty close game. But we'll
- 49:34Speaker 1: talk about it all tomorrow. For Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman.
- 49:37Speaker 1: See tomorrow and Cowboys storyline.
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